caputer card (+pc)
 

Hallo,

I'm searching for a professional capture card. Do you know good capture card. It is for professional use. And it has to have a analoog input, and it has to capture colored movies.

Do you have some idea's?

And is there a diffence between a professional caputer card and the chips that are on the vivo card like ati or nvidia??

edit.: make your own capture pc.
My boss said that i can order a new pc for caputing use. What do you advise?

umm, maybe look at some of leadtek's cards, or what about ati AIW cards? would they work

i think to work with a ati card with video-in or is nvidia better??

For the moment i don't think to work with a professional card. I think that the differance isn't that big but i have no experice in that area.

i think with vivo you should be fine, but im not sure what kind of software you need

I have used both Leadtek TV; Nvidia Cinima and ATI AIW. Points to remember:

1) Min. 30 FPS
2) Software to convert to Mpeg in single pass
3) Audio and Video in sync
4) Software ability to choose video size

May be other people could give more tips on the topic. The three cards I used above (two of them since year 2000, gave me good service in converting all 8mm, VHS into Mpeg and CVD).

Never use USB type ... they are too slow and no good.

I have a 8500 AIW which captures analog and digital input. The quality is very good.

Most important factor when capturing is harddisk size and speed. I had a 7.200 rpm disk that couldn't keep up with large digital input.

What are you going to capture ?

the software that i need:
- make movies
- take pictures
- edit pictures, make from 3 picture 1 big piture, on a easy way.

on the latest ati card, wath is the Rage Theater chip? Is it still the rage theater 200 chip or have the a new one?

what bosw8er said, hard drive size and speed, once you find a good card to capture, get a couple 7200rpm hard drives or a good set of sata drives, and stripe them, it will help alot if your doing alot of encoding and so on.....

while we're on the topic of encoding files, does anyone know a program to shrink mpg/avi files, i need to lower resolution and sound quality, im looking for somethin easy to use, any ideas?

for example: it is for tensile test (trekproef) for the pins of your monitor.

? Exactly how drunk were you when posting that ? ;)

"What are you going to capture" could give following answers :
- digital camera material
- conversion of VHS- tapes
- television material
- wild elephants and rinos
- ...

And what is a pull test of the pins of your monitor ?

2 cans of beer for me.:^D

The latest ATI card is the All-In-Wonder X800 XT but ATI hasn't started shipping it yet. This card has also the Rage Theater 200 on board.

that's a mechanical test for to know how strong these elements are,...

The image come from a analoge camera.

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProduc...122-132&depa=0
Leadtek PCI TV/FM Tuner Card, REMOTE, Model "WinFast TV2000 XP Deluxe"
This is the one i use, has great analoge inputs, quailty is said to be much higher than the ATI AIW cards (had a freind get a AIW and then got one of these, becuase the AIW quailty was too poor)
software supports just about any type of cap method you would want and you can add in codec's too